Lynn Collins Quotes
The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
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Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
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The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.
